March 18, 2013
Hello family and friends,
Man it's an exciting time to be a
missionary in the Salt Lake City South mission! Everyone here in
Riverton loves that I'm younger and they really just want to help and
talk about the new missionary ages. I think they're all curious to see
how good of a missionary I'll be because I'm younger. But I found out
this week that I'm still older than most of the Elders in my district
and I'm a girl so I'm obviously more mature, so I really don't think the
missionary ages will change the work.
This week we did a lot of contacting the referrals we got from the
leadership. And boy was it hard. People can be awfully mean when
they're contacted several times a month and they don't want to be. But
we did get a lot of lessons set up for this next week and I'm pretty
excited. One is with a man that claims to be atheist and the other is
with a family that has a religion with no name, and meets in homes like
Jesus did. I was confused because in the bible Jesus met on hills and
in the temple and in the streets. Not sure what he was talking about,
but our lesson will be interesting with him.
We only taught two main lessons this week. Definitely need
improvement. One was with a less active family. We were focusing on
the twins that are 11 but we really wanted to get the parents involved.
We have another lesson with them this week and hopefully we'll see them
at church on sunday. The other lesson was on tuesday with a part
member family. The dad is inactive and the two kids are adorable. The
mom was excommunicated when she was 16, but we've been working with the
bishop and he wants to see her back in the church. I love them and they
are the P's. The girl, she's 5, and she right at the start told us
that her mom smokes and drinks coffee. Haha no secrets in this house.
It reminded me of teaching the primary kids and how they just say
whatever with no reservations.
Well I got to know my district a little more this week. We see
them a lot what with district workout, weekly planning, and district
meeting. On friday, after weekly planning, we had district lunch and it
was uncomfortable. I'm going to be frank here... I can see that me
being 20 is very different for the elders. They asked me about
boyfriends, about my sisters and friends, about basically every part of
my life. It was just strange. All week you're only thinking about
missionary work and then all of a sudden bam, nothing about missionary
work. My companion, Sister Hodgson, told me next time that happened,
we'd leave early. Love the elders to death, but they still need to
mature a bit.
Also, we had a surprise zone meeting this week. The zone leaders
texted us at 10:15 pm and it was at 7am the next morning. We were
ticked. They checked our planners and then our district was allowed to
leave, and Hermana Leavitt and her companion as well but the others
were chastised. We're not on good terms with the zone leaders right now
and Sister Hodgson and I have to do our companionship study with them
tomorrow. Great...
So what I really want to say is this week we were trying to contact
someone and they weren't home. Across the street a group of teenagers
were hanging out (it was saturday night, I forget that that's normal for
people to do). We went over there and talked to them a bit and then
asked if they knew anyone that needed to hear about the gospel. All at
once they said, "Troy". A boy that was up the street practicing his
scooter tricks. He's a senior in high school. The boys were super
excited and talking about how they wanted him to be baptized before they
left on their missions, sound familiar Shams? Anyways, I was super
excited for them and I just kept thinking about Shams. Sister Hodgson
hasn't caught the spirit of it yet, but she will. Yesterday we went
over to one of the friend's houses and he was so willing to ask Troy to
meet with the missionaries. This kid is going to be baptized and it's
going to change his life and I'm just so excited about it.
We also met a gay lady this week. With two kids. Fun stuff.
I'm loving it and there's still no word on the visa situation.
Hermana Borup
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